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Re:Ask HN: Money Transfer Services? on Thursday June 10, 2021 @05:33AM (#27458745)
Transferwise (Wise). If the country you're sending to is not supported, then WorldRemit.
Re:Ask HN: How do you get over the meaninglessness of life? on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:02PM (#25666310)
Truly accept the meaninglessness of life. Then choose a meaning for yourself. Here’s a good one: help reduce the amount of suffering in the world. Millions of people around the world are in a constant state of suffering (poverty, homelessness, war, mental issues, etc.); they’re not lucky enough to have their fundamental needs met in order to contemplate the meaning of life. Help just one of them to have a better life (donate, volunteer, mentor, ...). It shouldn’t be too hard; look around you.
This is a great idea and exactly how I learned to touch-type when I was a teenager.

I would keep a book open in front of me and type the sentences in Microsoft Word as I was reading them.

Glad to see this process made seamless with your site. :)

Re:Ask HN: What Is Your Blog? on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:39AM (#24406071)
> For whatever reason I'm more motivated to maintain something I've built myself as compared to previous attempts with medium and such. The freedom to do whatever I want, however I want is nice. I can present things simply, with little to no adornment, avoid pushing trackers and ads on people, explicitly release my content under whatever copyright I want, etc.

Totally agree. For my blog (https://faical.dev) I have a very similar setup (S3 & Cloudflare) with HTML generated from Markdown using a small command line tool I built (https://github.com/ftchirou/article). For publishing, I push a Markdown file to a repo and a Bitrise workflow takes care of generating the HTML and uploading to S3.

- No work apps/tools on personal devices (Slack, Google, Jira, etc.)

- No matter what, close your work laptop at 5pm (or whatever time your hard stop is). Any pending work/emergency eating you will still be there the next day.

- Take a walk.

Re:Ask HN: How did you learn functional programming? on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:49AM (#23818980)
I learned functional programming many years ago, by reading the book COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky [1]. Incredible book, super beginner friendly; the chapter on Recursion in particular is one of my favourites. :)

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

Re:Ask HN: Do you still pay with Paypal? on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:25AM (#19461106)
Seems Flutterwave [1] fits your needs perfectly. Have you tried it?

[1] https://flutterwave.com/za/

Re:PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:43AM (#19127242)
<off-topic>I committed to a Microsoft open source project and worked with (ex-)Microsoft people. The experience was great :)</off-topic>
Re:This is for the fat ones: what changed it? on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:47AM (#19114602)
I just read this [0] this morning and thought it was thoughtful. Hope it helps.

[0] https://medium.com/not-another-diet/not-another-diet-6a86abe...

Re:Ask HN: How to learn to write a compiler and interpreter? on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:37AM (#19006438)
I designed a programming language and wrote an interpreter for it [1] for fun without a formal CS education. I started a series of articles [2] to teach people everything they need to do the same. Give it a try :).

[1] https://github.com/ftchirou/blink

[2] https://hackernoon.com/lets-build-a-programming-language-261...

(P.S. Feel free to reach out to me [github_username] at gmail.com)

Heetch [1] is based in Paris, France and is super remote friendly (~95% of the engineering team is remote) :)

[1] https://www.heetch.com/fr/jobs

Re:Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume? on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @12:00PM (#16159702)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:15AM (#15843928)
There is a `file upload error` when submitting an application on this page https://unify.id/iOS-application.html.
Re:Show HN: Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @01:21PM (#15645976)
> If I have a class I can't modify and that doesn't conform to protocol `Foo`, can I make it conform to that protocol?

Yes, you can.